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Welcome to Open Repository's May newsletter, featuring Oxfam's repository launch, DSpace 1.8 upgrade and the latest open access news from around the world.

Oxfam GB, the leading aid and development charity, has recently launched its repository - the Oxfam iLibrary. The iLibrary was developed to allow Oxfam to organize, showcase and browse its vital research and policy information worldwide in a single, secure location online.

Oxfam now has a uniquely customized, reliable and cost-effective repository solution, with advanced features and support from the Open Repository team. Read the case study and blog to learn more.

Open Repository has upgraded all of its clients to the latest DSpace platform, version 1.8. New features include the ability to export communities and collections, open search functionality, the ability for administrators to carry out more complex metadata editing in batches and RSS feeds now support richer features such as iTunes podcasts. To learn more about the benefits of Open Repository's automatic upgrades for customers, read the blog.

James Evans has joined the Open Repository team as Product Manager, and will be responsible for managing the product direction and development projects of Open Repository. Previously, he has worked as a Publishing Systems Product & Project Manager for various STM and trade publishers.

Eva Kollarova provides technical support to Open Repository’s clients, as well as assisting with the development of new product features. Her experience of IT project management makes her a great addition to the team.

Open Repository’s tweets about open access, repositories and our product updates have now gained a following of over 1,100 people on twitter! If you would like to join them and be kept up-to-date with the latest news, click here to follow us.

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has been brought in by the UK government to help make all taxpayer-funded academic research in Britain available online to anyone who wants to read or use it. The initiative is expected to be up and running in the next two years, and was announced by the universities and science minister David Willetts in a speech to the Publishers Association.

As a well known supporter of free and open access to information on the web, Wales will help set up the next generation of open access platforms for UK researchers, as well as the format in which academic papers should be published and data standards. It is expected that this initiative is most likely to result in a central repository that will host all research articles that result from public funding.

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